148:(1997, University of California Press), examined issues of sexuality, gender and marriage from the Bible through the Talmud, the Middle Ages and modern Jewish history. The latter two books were based on a genealogical approach to Jewish history in which Biale traced the career of a concept over a three-thousand-year course.
312:, and others). They had two children, Noam and Tali, and several grandchildren. The family returned to Berkeley in 1986 and lived there ever since. In addition to his academic work, Biale was a bread baker, avid cyclist and amateur student of piano. He delivered his final lecture,
166:(2007, University of California Press), Biale traced the genealogy of blood in Jewish history. In 2010, he turned his attention to the place of secularism in Jewish thought, arguing in
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